From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 18 20:23: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3429D37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010119042056.UKSG6045.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:20:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3A67C110.F54711CA@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:22:40 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Schulte Cc: Christopher K Davis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports References: <024201c08185$44c5efb0$3028680a@tgt.com> <3A6772B4.4E9FBE74@cisco.com> <20010118214530.A63218@schulte.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Schulte wrote: > > This is what I've done when cvsup didn't properly update an older > ports tree.... > > mv ports ports.old ; cvsup ports-supfile > > Causing, as you guessed, cvsup to pull down a freshly current ports tree. > > My only concern would be if I wanted to come back at a later date and modify > a port which was installed from ports.old.... would the pkg_* suite > still be able to recognize and deal with this? Are there other dependency > issues which one should be aware? > I think that kind of info is stored in /var/db/pkg so doing what you do would create no (additional) problems. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message